Dead Poets Society - The Value of Encouraging Freethinkers
McAllister: [[Rembrandt; [Shakespeare; [Mozart]
You take a big risk by encouraging them to be artists, John. When they realize they're not ]s, ]s or ]s, they'll hate you for it.
Keating:
We're not talking artists, George, we're talking freethinkers.
McAllister:
Freethinkers at seventeen?
Keating:
Funny — I never pegged you as a cynic.
McAllister:
Not a cynic, a realist. "Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man.
Keating:
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
McAllister: [[Tennyson]
]?
Keating:
No, Keating.
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